Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

To do this effectively, it’s important to remember that every customer interaction matters when closing a deal. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The data used throughout this post is from anonymized, US-based Apptentive customers’ iOS apps. Almost all of our customers’ apps have experienced a significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. Here are our top recommendations for Travel and Hospitality brands at this time: Focus on reducing customer churn and boosting loyalty.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We’ve expanded our product offering and the customers we target, meaning we’re marketing to new and more varied audiences. It’s a simple framework for defining the tier of a launch where P1 refers to the biggest launches, P4 refers to small updates or improvements and P2 and P3 cover everything in between. Prioritize based on impact.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2021

For years, customer support was seen as a cost center, not a value driver – a necessary response to inevitable customer questions or frustrations. But now that customer experience has become a critical differentiator for modern consumers, this reactive approach to customer support is no longer good enough.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

5-step process The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a powerful tool in product design that helps teams focus on understanding the needs and objectives of their customers rather than just the product itself. Here’s how to use the JTBD framework in product design: [link] 1. Jobs to be done template. Who are they?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. To reframe things, only about one out of three feature ideas actually come directly from customers… you know, the people who are paying money to use your products.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

According to Gartner , companies that properly use customer journey maps are twice as likely to outperform their competitors that don’t. But to unlock such effective results, first, you need to know how to create impactful maps—which is what these 8 customer journey map examples are for. Creating user personas.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Your new feature validation framework should consist of at least 3 techniques. How can you build one?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each. Design: Customer Discovery Insights. Elon Musk has put out some of my favorite product vision walkthroughs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Every designer should ask themselves – how can I apply the tenets of good design to drive better customer and business outcomes? User research is a vital part of the design process. By constantly observing the customer, you find out how they define success in their organization, and therefore, how you can help them achieve it.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

The Approach (the Frameworks). Where will you compete: which customer segments, which categories, which channels? Will you follow Porter’s path for differentiation or cost leadership? I’d like to share next how we merged these frameworks together in a unified process. Where will you play? How will you win?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

There, he’ll share his framework to: Position your product. Positioning is about defining your product’s value and unique selling point. Messaging , on the other hand, is about using the right words to clearly communicate your benefits to customers. – Differentiate your product from the competition.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Manickam’s team at Boomi, which specializes in cloud-based integration, API management and master data management, starts all messaging and positioning with the same framework. ” Remember the audience—the customer—while building that messaging framework. See below.).

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Manickam’s team at Boomi, which specializes in cloud-based integration, API management and master data management, starts all messaging and positioning with the same framework. ” Remember the audience—the customer—while building that messaging framework. See below.).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is inspired by the book The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen and aims to describe two essential concepts described in the book, namely the Product-Market Fit Pyramid and the Lean Product Process that aims to help us achieve that fit. it’s a hypothesis.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

The 5 types of Product Differentiation How to fight your natural instinct to copy others The allure of copying competitors The gravitational pull towards copying competitors is real. The product teams who are able to fight this natural instinct to copy others are the ones who will build truly differentiated offerings.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. Our guide introduces 15 popular prioritization frameworks along with their pros and cons. Let’s dive in.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Step 1: Understand why Your Customers use Your Product. Sean Ellis’ survey to discover if you’ve hit product/market fit is a great way to understand your customers. It tells you the value your customers get from your product and which aspect of your product is key to them. How do you differentiate a soap’s messaging?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2023

The way users perceive and interact with a product influences their overall experience. The Gestalt principles — originating from psychology and applied to design — offer a systematic framework to understand how humans naturally perceive and organize visual information. The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” — Kurt Koffka 2.

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Userpilot

MAY 14, 2024

A customer behavior model reveals the external and intrinsic factors influencing buying decisions. This article covers 12 of the most common customer behavior models and how to maximize them for better product management. Customer behavior models also help them improve user experience and boost customer retention.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. Book the demo !

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Differentiation : Strategic messaging highlights what makes your brand unique, showcasing features and benefits that set you apart from competitors. User persona example.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A good grasp of the customer value chain is essential to product-led growth. Having a clear idea of how your solution adds value to your customers’ lives is the only way you’ll be able to clearly communicate the core benefits and get your value proposition across. What is the customer value chain concept?

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It pinpoints user difficulties, enhances usability, and drives continuous improvement. Positive UX differentiates products, prevents dissatisfaction-driven churn, and validates decisions through data-driven insights. Various UX measurement frameworks exist, including HEART, SUS, NPS, and CES. What is Google’s HEART Framework ?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? A company achieves the product-market fit when the product satisfies the needs of enough customers who are willing to pay for it, and it is easy to scale. What should a product manager do to achieve and maintain the PMF?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthermore, soft skills like product sense, communication, creativity, and being the glue that enables a team to operate at their very best will become even more important (and a differentiator among companies). However, customers will still want to talk to real people to share their honest challenges, ideas, and experiences.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey. A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product. Being good at user interviews is not equal to simply listening to your users.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Empathize with users. Analyze your target users to understand their pain points, goals, and behaviors. Develop user personas. A great value proposition should: Differentiate your product from other solutions in the market. Communicate the main benefit your product provides to users. Who are they?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A B2B marketing strategy is any marketing activity aimed at turning other companies into customers. Next, you need to formulate your key message using your customers’ pain points and their resolvent with your product. Defining your target audience helps you reach your potential customers with the right channels.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 17, 2018

A classic marketing framework is the 4 Ps: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. Most people will instinctively focus on the first P (Product), and delivering a product that with capabilities that users/buyers cannot get anywhere else. For example: Your product might be the most convenient one for the user to purchase (e.g.,

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Confirming you have product-market fit before launching your product ensures you have customers who are happy to pay for your product, use it, and share the word about it. Differentiate your product from other similar products on the market to avoid product parity. It reveals the value customers receive for the money paid.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 7, 2019

Product Questions: In product interview questions, you often need to focus on a particular customer segment or user pain point. Overall, tradeoffs can be a significant differentiating factor in estimation questions as they provide an opportunity to address potential issues with your response.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

An effective customer activation funnel can be an extremely powerful way to channel new customers through your product and get them to experience value fast. In this article, we’ll explore what customer activation is, how to unlock it within your own product, and the best tactics, techniques, and onboarding tools for the job.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 27, 2019

The value proposition of a product provides one of the most important meeting points for user experience design and marketing. Although it deals mainly not with serving the customer but selling, it involves matching their needs with your product. It defines the first step of telling users what you offer.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. Measuring user sentiment with NPS surveys is easy.

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